Women change the world.
Ahead of International Women’s Day, the Left is organising its annual Feminist Forum at the European Parliament, ASP 1G2.
In the midst of the worst cost of living crisis in decades and with worrying levels of violence against women, we ask what’s next for the “resisterhood”?
Left MEPs Malin Björk (Swedish Left Party), Elena Kountoura (Syriza) and María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop (Podemos) will be joined by special guests to discuss how freedom from patriarchy can help end violence against women and fight exploitation and female poverty.
PROGRAMME
9:00- 09:15 – Opening remarks
Manon Aubry, MEP and Co-Chair of The Left. FI, France. Online
9:15- 10:30 Freedom from Patriarchal Violence
Biljana Brankovic, Member of GREVIO, Independent Researcher, online
Alexandra Haché, expert in gender and technologies
Marcella Pirrone, President of WAVE Network (Women Against Violence Europe) online
Anna Zobnina, Strategy and Executive Director of the European Network of Migrant Women,
Malin Björk, The Left MEP, Swedish Left Party
Elena Kountoura, The Left MEP, Syriza, Greece
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 – Cost of living: fighting exploitation and female poverty
Evelyne Ayong, La ligue des travailleuses domestiques
Sally Shortall, leading international academic expert in rural gender issues, coordinator of EU project GRASSCEILING
Francoise De Smedt, leader of PTB in the Parliament of Brussels, member of Marianne, women’s commission for PTB
María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, The Left MEP and vice-chair of the FEMM committee, Podemos, Spain